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Re: Benefits for the poor are spent on drugs and gambling
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Originally Posted by garinda
The welfare state was a ground breaking concept.
It was created to help those, who through no fault of their own, were in genuine need.
To be able to chose to live on benefits, because it's better paid than working for a living, is wrong, and it was wrong for successive governments to allow this to happen.
I'm with Marg P, on what constitutes the definition of poverty.
To me that's not having enough food to give your children, no money to heat your home, and not having enough money to see a doctor, and buy medicine.
In my opinion you don't live in poverty if you have a house full of the latest 'must have' gadgets, many working families would struggle to afford to buy.
Why work when I can get £42,000 in benefits a year AND drive a Mercedes?
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Agreed on all counts.
But how can these people be eligible for benefits if they voluntarily leave paid employment? It should NOT be possible... 
How they also have the nerve to tell their story in the papers is beyond me...presumably they receive a pretty big cheque. In this case the wife even had the brazen courage to lament a lack of holidays - unbelievable.
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